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"I'm not keen on the idea of the afterlife - not without knowing who else will be there and what the entertainment will be. Personally I'd rather just take a rest." Oscar Berger, PWA: Looking AIDS in the Face, 1996. RIP.

First of all, I have no intention of excluding you permanently, and I have no intentions of asking you to delete your post.

You responded to her post about her grandmother in your fashion and I responded to yours in mine, it's as simple as that, and although I agree with you in as much as FK's story is full of potholes filled with Sh*t I still found you comment about her grandmother (I'm assuming she had one at some point in her life) to be disrespectful, you disagreed with the words I used and called it bullsh*t...that's fine, you are entitled to your opinion but I won't apologise for my choice of words.

BTW..in the 5 years I have been here I have never once told anyone to "Shut up" or Banned them simply because they wrote something I found offensive...and I'm not about to start now.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Florida69 aka fraidknot, chrisbadmushrooms, morebadmushrooms, DRLOVE etc etc etc (along with half of the more bizarre won’t take no for an answer questioners in the ‘AII?’ forums of various HIV sites).

Vokz,

There is no hard evidence to support your claim that Donnie and Fraid are the same person. In fact, they are not the same person and I can say that with complete confidence. Remember, as a moderator, I'm privileged to information you are not.

If you have suspicions about the identity of certain posters in relation to sock-puppetry, the correct procedure is to inform the moderators, not make unfounded accusations in the public forum. To make such accusations in the forum is tantamount to flamebait. I'll thank you to not do this again in future. People have been timed-out for doing this repeatedly in the past and you will also be held accountable for this behaviour if it happens again.

"...health will finally be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for." Kofi Annan

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. Mignon McLaughlin

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character. Randy Shilts

You stated in this thread that you have gained support from a few individuals in the form of PMs - and so I do not expect you to attempt to resurrect this subject in a new thread. You can continue to access that support via PM.

You have already discovered that many of us here take a dim view of positive people using draconian laws against other positive people. You've had your say, we've had our say. I see this thread going no-where but a continuous, downward spiral that can only end in time-outs and bans. I don't want to see that happen.

"...health will finally be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for." Kofi Annan

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. Mignon McLaughlin

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character. Randy Shilts